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Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Lincoln Rhyme alum Russell Hornsby is set for a key recurring role on the upcoming third and final season of Netflix’s family sci-fi adventure series Lost in Space.Hornsby’s role is being kept under wraps for now.Lost in Space is a modern reimagining of the classic 1960s science fiction series.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Audrey Corsa, who recurred on the first season of All Rise, has been promoted to series regular for the second season of the CBS courthouse drama.Corsa plays Samantha Powell, a young, ambitious law clerk in the DDA’s office bullpen.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: There soon will be a new face in Riverdale.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of Ethan in the upcoming season of the CW’s Legacies. Leo Howard, who recurred as the character in Season 2, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming third season of the drama.Howard’s Ethan is a student at Mystic Falls High School and son of Sheriff Mac (Bianca Kajlich).

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEmmy-nominated producer Jesse Collins has been tapped as an executive producer of the 2021 Super Bowl halftime show. The announcement Tuesday by the NFL, Jay Z’s RocNation and Pepsi make Collins the halftime show’s first ever Black producer.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorSony Pictures Television has acquired global distribution rights to the documentary Who You Gonna Call? chronicling the life of Grammy-winner Ray Parker Jr., who penned the smash hit song “Ghostbusters”.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Sherri Shepherd (Mr. Iglesias) is set to recur opposite Kyra Sedgwick in ABC’s Kari Lizer comedy series Call Your Mother.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten and executive produced by The New Adventures Of Old Christine creator Lizer, Call Your Mother revolves around an empty-nester mom, Jean Raines (Sedgwick), who wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorStacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, and Desus Nice and The Kid Mero will join the Johnson family in Black-ish‘s partially animated and election themed special next month. Abrams, and Desus and Mero will lend their voices to the special, directed by Oscar winner Matthew A.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: You’re the Worst alum Chris Geere is set for a recurring role in the upcoming third season of ABC’s ensemble drama series A Million Little Things.Written by DJ Nash, A Million Little Things revolves around a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances.Geere will play Jamie, Maggie’s (Allison Miller) roommate in Oxford. Brash and funny.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Actress and musician Taryn Manning, known for her role as Tiffany “Pennsatucky” Doggett on the hit Netflix series Orange is the New Black, has signed with Pantheon for representation.Manning starred on all seven seasons of OITNB, sharing in three SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of the convict Doggett. Manning also previously recurred on FX’s Sons of Anarchy.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Terrence Terrell (Giants) is set as a series regular in CBS’ new Chuck Lorre-Marco Pennette multi-camera comedy series B Positive, headlined by Thomas Middleditch and Annaleigh Ashford.Created by Pennette, B Positive is about a therapist and newly divorced dad (Middleditch) who is faced with finding a kidney donor when he runs into a rough-around-the-edges woman from his past (Ashford) who volunteers her own.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorWe now know who will be the new voice of Carl, Homer Simpson’s co-worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, on The Simpsons. Better Things actor Alex Désert replaces Hank Azaria in the role, at least in Sunday’s Season 32 premiere.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorABC has put in development a multi-camera parents comedy from Sabrina Jalees (Carol’s Second Act) and 20th Television.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Jalees, the Untitled Sabrina Jalees project follows first-time-parents Sam and Bertie, whose lives take a turn when Alex (their spontaneous biological-donor-daddy) pays them a visit and unexpectedly becomes a part of their lives.Jalees executive produces with Sam Saifer.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe Casagrandes will be back for a third go-round. Ahead of its season 2 debut, Nickelodeon has renewed Emmy-winning kids series The Casagrandes for a third season.A spinoff of Nickelodeon’s top-rated animated series The Loud House, The Casagrandes has ranked as the number two animated property across television with Kids 2-11 since its October 2019 debut.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Jessica Jones alumna Leah Gibson and Nathan Owens (Devious Maids) are set for recurring roles on the second season of the CW’s Batwoman. Both will join new lead Javicia Leslie, along with Shivaani Ghai, who also recurs in the superhero series.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Pandora‘s Tehmina Sunny has been tapped for a multi-episode arc opposite Nick Gehlfuss on the upcoming sixth season of NBC’s hit drama series Chicago Med.Sunny will play Dr. Sabeena Virani.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorWriter-producer Francesca Sloane (Atlanta, Fargo) has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios, and set her first project, a series based on the works of Anaïs Nin.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorAMC Networks has promoted longtime development executives Carrie Gillogly and Emma Miller to co-heads of AMC scripted series. The new positions expand the responsibilities for Gillogly, who also serves as SVP of scripted programming, and Miller, SVP of scripted development.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNickelodeon has given a 13-episode series order to Brendar the Barbarian (working title) a live-action puppet comedy series from co-creators Mike Mitchell (Trolls, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) and expert puppeteer Drew Massey (Mutt & Stuff, Sid the Science Kid).Brendar the Barbarian follows Evan, a bridge troll in search of adventure, and Brendar, a fierce female warrior, on a quest to defeat the evil demon who has imprisoned her brother.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorFormer NBCUniversal casting executive Felicia Joseph has joined MRC Television as SVP, Head of Casting, a newly created position. She begins her new role on October 8.Joseph will oversee casting and continuing artist relations for the studio’s upcoming productions including The Shrink Next Door, Ozark, The Great, The Terminal List and Shining Girls as well as other projects in various stages of development.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe Ellen DeGeneres Show drew solid ratings in its Season 18 premiere Monday, in which DeGeneres addressed allegations of a toxic workplace that had emerged over the summer.The series opener earned a 1.9 rating and 6 share among Households, improving its lead-in 1.2/4 by +58% in rating and 50% in share, and steady vs its year-ago September time period average rating of 1.9/6.Versus last year’s debut episode, Ellen was steady year-to-year with a 1.1 rating

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, DC veteran scribe Grainne Godfree (Legends of Tomorrow) has been tapped to write and executive produce a TV series based on Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ recently released YA novel, the first in a two-book series, which is in development at Amazon. The project hails from Sony Pictures TV and Josh Berman’s studio-based Osprey Productions, which landed the rights to the books in a competitive situation.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorSyfy’s TZGZ weekly late-night animation block continues to expand its slate, with a six-episode series order to holiday comedy The Pole. The series, starring Bobby Moynihan and Jillian Bell, hails from Future Man writers Matthew Bass and Theodore Bressman, and Yeti Farm Creative (Hotel Transylvania Season 2, Pete the Cat Season 2).

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Former The Americans star Holly Taylor is set as a new series regular in the upcoming third season of NBC’s Manifest, from Jeff Rake and Warner Bros. TV.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: John Hoogenakker (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) is set as a series regular in Dopesick, Hulu’s eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy’s bestselling book. The project is from The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO Max has given a green light to Not So Pretty, a four-episode half-hour investigative docuseries about the beauty industry, from Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s Jane Doe Films (On The Record, The Hunting Ground) and Entertainment One. The series is currently in production.